440 REPORT— 1897. 



An Ethnological Survey of Canada. — First Report cf the Committee, 

 consisting of Dr. George Dawson (Chairman and Secretary), Mr. 

 E. W. Brabrook, Professor A. C. Haddon, Mr. E. S. Hartland, 

 Dr. J. G. BouRiNOT, Abbe Cuoq, Mr. B. Sulte, Abbe Tanguay, 

 Mr. C. Hill-Tout, Mr. David Boyle, Rev. Dr. Scadding, Eev. 

 Dr. J. Maclean, Dr. Neree Beauchemin, Rev. Dr. G. Patterson, 

 Professor D. P. Penhallow, and Mr. C. N. Bell. 



ArrEXDIX FAGS 



I.— The Growth of Toronto CMldren, hy Dr. Fbanz Boas . . . . . 443 

 II. — Tlie Origin of the French Canadians, hy B. Sulte 449 



This Committee was nominated at the Liverpool meeting last year, with 

 the object of initiating an ethnological survey of Canada on lines cor- 

 responding with those already followed by the Committee for the Ethno- 

 graphical Survey of the United Kingdom, as well as to continue, so far as 

 may be possible, work of the kind carried on since the Montreal meeting 

 (1884) by the Committee on the North- Western Tribes of Canada. It 

 comprises three members of the Committee for the Ethnographical Survey 

 of the United Kingdom, including the Chairman and Secretary of that 

 committee. Fourteen members resident in Canada were also nominated, 

 but one of these, Mr. Horatio Hale, has since died. 



In nominating the Canadian members some regard was given to geo- 

 graphical position, so that the principal regions of the Dominion would be 

 represented. This, while necessary under the circumstances, has to some 

 extent prevented an intei'change of ideas as complete as might be desired. 

 Some correspondence and discussion on the general scope of the work and 

 the plans to be followed have, however, taken place. Messrs. E. W. 

 Brabrook and E. S. Hartland have contributed valuable information and 

 suggestions respecting the work of the similar committee for the United 

 Kingdom, and several Canadian members have evinced a strong interest 

 in the survey now to be undertaken. 



It has not yet, however, been found practicable actually to initiate 

 any systematic observations, to print and distribute the necessary schedules, 

 or to provide sets of instruments for physical measurements, no funds 

 being available for these purposes. It is believed that a number of 

 observers may be enlisted in several of the numerous lines of inquiry 

 which appear to be open to the Committee, embracing both the immigrant 

 European population of Canada and its aborigines. 



Of suggestions received from members of the Committee the following 

 general considerations presented by Professor D. P. Penhallow, of McGill 

 University, may be quoted : — 



' The very unstable character of our population and the extensive 

 mixture of races to be met with in a given community require that we 

 should adopt somewhat different lines of procedure from those employed 

 by the Committee for the United Kingdom. Therefore, while we might 

 wisely adopt the main lines of investigation employed by the Committee 

 for Great Britain, as embodied in their report for 1893 ("B. A. Report," 

 1893, p. 621), and while these lines of investigation might be applied to 



